America No Longer Compassionate. Has Turned Vindictive And Angry. No Longer Cares About Law And Order. Newsom Nonsense. Articles.

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America seems no longer to be a compassionate nation. We seem to have become an angry, vindictive nation.  

We no longer seem to care a whiff about obeying laws. There are those in our society who actively finance candidates who announce they will not enforce laws and we gladly elect them to office.

The Bill of Rights, one of the most sacred documents man ever crafted, is no longer respected and enforced.  This document separated our nation from all others. It stated government served "We the people"

A society which conducts itself accordingly will not survive nor has any reason to do so.

How did this come to be? "We the people" let it become so.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hard to believe. What the idiot Newsom imposes on Californians will not sell in the rest of the country.
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California Plans to Outlaw Natural Gas

BY LINCOLN BROWN 

 

As if residents of the Golden State did not have enough to make them miserable with wildfires, mudslides, mounting crime, high prices, energy shortages, and homeless people leaving various substances on city streets. Now the California Air Resources Board, or CARB (good grief, even the acronyms are ridiculous), is gearing up to rid the state of natural gas heaters and furnaces. According to The Hill, last week, the board passed a proposal that will lay the groundwork to phase out space heaters and water appliances by 2030. The Hill notes that the move is part of an effort to meet the  “federal 70 parts per billion, 8-hour ozone standard” within the next 15 years. The article also says that the California Public Utilities Commission has eliminated subsidies for new natural gas hookups. So some people and businesses will not even access natural gas while it’s legal.

The talking points at the top of the The Hill piece state, “Natural gas use contributes to air pollution and can threaten gains made in the fight against climate change.” Having personally spoken with people in the field, I can tell you that natural gas is extremely clean burning and an environmentally-sound fuel not only for heating homes but even for powering vehicles. I have known county governments that purchased natural gas vehicles. The interiors of these vehicles begin to wear out long before the engines. Armrests fall off these vehicles before the engines begin to get old.

The piece also states that natural gas can contribute to cancer. If you live in California, you know that almost everything there has been linked to cancer. I know this because on a vacation to Napa a few years ago, I saw warning labels on almost everything, including the coffee station in a convenience store. And according to The Hill, natural gas leaks are dangerous to homeowners, something we have known for years, and gas contains volatile chemicals. But the fuel is also abundant, cheap, and easy on the environment.

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The alternative? Heat pumps, which in turn will rely on electricity. Which will in turn rely on wind, solar, and unicorn farts.

I remember when air quality monitoring stations were set up in the area in which I used to live. One was installed on a remote road where the terrain was such that vehicle fumes from the oil and gas field trucks naturally accumulated. Another was set up at the municipal airport by the tarmac where there was more heat and exhaust from planes and trucks. So of course, the complainers got the results they wanted.

You can read the original proposal here. The press release is available here.

Once again, Gavin Newsom and the renewables racketeers get what they want and rake in even more money. And California residents get to enjoy another inconvenience, to say the least. Keep that in mind when Newsom announces his run for president.

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But what is it about our current condition that seems to make so many people predisposed to believing and propagating those extreme voices? It’s inescapable that part of the answer lies in the collapse of the traditional institutions of authority. The stability of the two-parent family, the primacy of faith and the cohesion of a wider community not only conferred an order on people’s lives but established a larger sovereignty of truth on them. Loving but firm parental leadership, the eternal verities of religion, the obligations to a wider social unit of shared values imposed a structure of epistemic guardrails. It is not that this structure constrained us all to believe the same things, religiously, politically or otherwise, but it established the prior understanding that there is such a thing as a higher truth that mocks propositions and ideas that defy it. “When men choose not to believe in God,” G.K. 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